The United States should offer sanctions relief in exchange for a verified North Korean missile-testing freeze

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North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them, covering its nuclear and missile programmes and the tests and facility developments that neighbouring states and international monitors track.

South Korea reported multiple North Korean ballistic-missile launches towards the sea east of the peninsula. Pyongyang said it tested an upgraded component of a tactical missile. The launches followed South Korea's hypersonic test and occurred alongside renewed signals about possible US–North Korea diplomacy.